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Fall 1999

Pet Loss

Sunday, Sep 05, 1999

Pet Loss: Valuable Resources to Help You and Your Family Cope with the Death of an Animal CompanionN. Glenn Perrett In the last issue of Animal Welfare in Focus I wrote an article entitled “Dealing With the Death of an Animal Companion”. At the time it had been a few years since my wife Lynn and I had had to cope with the death of a beloved four-legged family member. ...

Montreal Bullfight

Sunday, Sep 05, 1999

On a pleasant afternoon in August at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal, six bulls were tormented, harassed, chased, teased and finally wrestled to the ground, exhausted. All in the name of human entertainment. It's called Portuguese bullfighting. The bulls are fitted with a velcro covered blanket and released one at a time into the ring. The bullfighter enters on horseback and attempts to ...

Circus Trainers Charged

Sunday, Sep 05, 1999

The poor young chimp whimpered and cried as she was kicked and beaten then shoved into a small cage where she was routinely kept for up to 15 hours a day. This scene was captured on videotape and shown to the British court considering the case of Mary Chipperfield, prominent animal trainer for Britain's oldest and best-known circus. Amazingly, Ms. Chipperfield claimed that there was nothing ...

Products to Protect Your Pet

Sunday, Sep 05, 1999

Frances Rodenburg Lucky Pet Identification Tags & “Pet Recovery Service” Lucky Pet identification tags are quality tags which come with a lifetime guarantee. For added protection, Lucky Pet now offers a “Pet Recovery Service” involving their 24-hour, toll-free hotline. For more information, or to order, contact Lucky Pet at 1-800-543-8247 or ...

Coming Soon - Humane Farming Standards

Sunday, Sep 05, 1999

Stephen Huddart It is now inevitable that the movement will expand into the arena of factory farming which accounts for 95% of all animal suffering – an arena with correspondingly far greater challengesHenry Spira, 1991 Henry Spira certainly had a sense of proportion. Compared to Canadians’ 12 – 15 million pets, or fewer than 2 million animals used annually in ...

A Haven for Throwaways

Sunday, Sep 05, 1999

Troy Seidle Only if we can understand can we care;Only if we care will we help;Only if we help shall all be saved.Dr. Jane Goodall For most animals in laboratories, the end of an experiment also marks the end of their brief lives. In the case of chimpanzees and some other non-human primates, however, this is less often the situation. For while some scientists are perfectly willing ...

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